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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 09 October 2013 11:22 AM,
Rafik Dammak wrote:<br>
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<div>I would like to get clarification from your side about this
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board will replace the US government's current
oversight role over the technical and operational
functions performed by ICANN<span
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membership of this oversight board can be of a
techno-political nature, </span><i><span
style="background-color:transparent">i.e.</span></i><span
style="background-color:transparent"> consisting
of people with specialized expertise but who also
have appropriate political backing, ascertained
through a democratic process. For instance, the
board can be made of 10/15 members, with 2/3
members each from five geographic regions (as
understood in the UN system). These members</span>
can perhaps be selected through an appropriate
process by the relevant technical standards bodies
and/or country domain name bodies of all the
countries of the respective region. (Other
mechanisms for constituting the techno-political
membership of this board can also be considered.)</p>
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<div>in particular the meaning of "<span
style="text-align:justify">appropriate political backing</span>"
and what kind of democratic process you are envisioning?</div>
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Hi Rafik,<br>
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This is left deliberately vague, to accommodate a series of possible
options. However, it is being made clear that we want both political
legitimacy and backing as well as technical expertise - without
possibility for political subversion (that is typically feared from
a multilateral UN kind of body) but also not left to be captured by
anyone with global political an economic muscle, which, excuse me to
say, technical bodies are prone to be captured by. Well, in any
case, oversight is a political or public policy function and not
something that technical community can be legitimacy be exercising
by itself. 'Political' in the sense that every person has equal
right to bring in her/ his perceptive irrespective of their
technical knowledge, which brings the challenge of arriving at the
highest public interest. . <br>
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One may look at some global standards bodies which consist of area
experts - coming often from established and relatively autonomous
institutions - but also having some kind/ level of political
acceptance in their respective countries etc.... As I said
elsewhere, say half of the members of this proposed new oversight
body can be from regional registries, and other half from country
based technical institutions, by rotation - numerous such
possibilities exist.<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Rafik</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">For example, there is an
"IANA Function Contract"... how would one
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function that is nominally provided today by
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">See the
above link...... Set up an international body
that takes over this function with no
accountability to the US, or any kind of US
jurisdiction... Simple. What other way is there
to globalise/ internationalise something ?<br>
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<div>There are many different possible structures
and mechanisms, for example,</div>
<div>you propose a new UN body, an Oversight Board,
globalization of ICANN,</div>
<div>and maintenance/strengthening of the existing
IGF. I can easily imagine </div>
<div>other methods of solving this problem with
different arrangements of bodies</div>
<div>and mechanisms.</div>
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<div>The Montevideo Statement on the Future of
Internet Cooperation does not</div>
<div>propose any particular solution, but only
states that several organizations </div>
<div>which are involved in Internet coordination
believe that the globalization of </div>
<div>ICANN and IANA functions (towards an
environment in which all stakeholders, </div>
<div>including all governments, participate on an
equal footing) is a goal worth </div>
<div>accelerating.</div>
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<div>Given your strong expression of concern over
the statement, I guess the </div>
<div>question arises - would you have preferred a
statement which indicated that</div>
<div>the current USG oversight of ICANN and IANA is
just fine? That certainly</div>
<div>would have supported the status quo...</div>
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<div>/John</div>
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